5 Step Guide to

Grow Remote

Overview

"Welcome to Grow Remote Meetups! You’re part of a national movement to build a remote working community in Ireland. We believe we’re in the middle of a seismic change in ways of working that opens up a whole new opportunity for a better quality of life, for remote workers and rural Ireland. We want to help you deliver that locally.
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- Tracy Keogh, Founder of Grow Remote

5 Steps

Decide to become a Chapter LeaderGet Yourself Up To SpeedBuild a local team Set a GoalKeep engaged & creating!

Who? Someone who...

Someone passionate about the power of bringing together job opportunities, remote workers and local communitiesA natural leader who loves connecting peopleA good network within your local community

Resource Checklist

Read the get started guide if you’re new to remote workSet up a team Set local goals/objectives for your chapterRun a programme/Project/Event/meetingShare your learnings back to the Grow Remote chapter leads in Slack!

Time

Ideally, running your Grow Remote Chapter will fit alongside the rest of your work and you'll have a team to share the burden with. Dedicating approximately 4 hours a week should be sufficient time to get your Chapter up and running.

Get Yourself Up To Speed

There was a big learning curve for our team when it came to the world of remote work.

To make remote work local, our chapter leads know 4 or 5 remote companies like they know the local employers. If you’re new to remote work, you’ll learn what we did. Right at this very moment, there are 1,000 jobs in rural locations but there’s a disconnect between us and them.

Join our Slack group for chapter leads, introduce yourself, have 1-1 calls with other chapter leads to get all the knowledge you’ll need to help your community thrive.

Build a local team

Grow Remote can connect you to other community leads, and has a range of central supports that are crowd sourced by us all, but making the magic happen is really all down to your local team. Not only will you be more productive but it will be a lot more fun!

You’ll want to onboard local people who are interested in seeing a remote working community grow, and may have a diverse set of skills like marketing, events, or tourism. You’ll also want to engage local government or business associations just so that they’re aware of your activity from early on, and can help you as and when you need it.

When you have the people, you’ll want to build a structure so that you can meet regularly and once per month is recommended. At the end of the first two sessions, you should have local strategic objectives set for your group - whether that’s connecting remote workers already working there, or using remote work to attract people to come and live in your community.

Places to find your team: Local business & networking groups, local community groups, Meetup.com, Facebook groups around business or community, your own network, LinkedIn, other social media, other Grow Remote chapters if they are nearby - they may have contacts in your area.

Resources: The GDrive has the emails you can send to onboard local partners and team mates.

Keep engaged & creating!

Armed with all of the information you’ll need, a brilliant community of fellow chapter leads, and a goal, the most important thing is to keep on going.

Some of your ideas will work, others won’t. To get to our top 5 projects we’ve tried at least 50. Creating and working on group projects is really important as this is how we foster our remote culture.

From updating our bible of remote work in the Get Going Guide by Patrick, to editing Elodie’s ebook or adding to the jobs board John made, our crowd-sourced resources are a really important part of our chapters.